Galway Hotels with Balcony

Stayed for my husband birthday. Our room was beautiful. The bar staff were amazing and served amazing cocktails. We stayed B&B and evening meal in the Pullmans. The food was good. And the opportunity to be in a carriage of the Orient Express was lovely idea. Good night had by all. Thank you.

The Dean Hotel is a boutique hotel just off Eyre Square in Galway. It's only a 5-7 minute walk from the pubs and shops in downtown Galway. The staff is friendly and accommodating. You have a choice of two restaurants. Elephant and Castle is on the ground floor and from Sophie's on the top floor you can see downtown Galway and the bay. The rooms are cheerful, comfortable and ours had a turntable with a couple of LPs. There were a few more LPs in the lobby. The outdoor pool is heated and was very popular during our stay.

Welcoming service at check in, a beautiful hotel just from the lobby and into our lovely room, both spacious and modern. With lovely comfortable beds and very soft pillows. Great shower no problem with hot water as well as plenty of clean, fluffy towels. We also ordered a fridge which was very handy with the warm weather. Very good WIFI .My only problem with the room was I would prefer lockers instead of drawer-less tables and instead of open cabinet . Not great storage without drawers, as the only one was in the bathroom. The food is this hotel is the best food we have had in all our hotel breaks in Galway. The choice for breakfast is very good but their dinner menu is great and there is great choice for everyone no matter what your food choice might be, with vegetarian and vegan options also. The staff through out the whole hotel are lovely and very helpful, especially Chinma who was so helpful during our meals in the evening. The standard of how clean this hotel is the best I have seen in all my stays in Galway, thank you for a lovely stay as we will be back.

I really wanted to rate this hotel a little higher, perhaps 3.5 stars. The PROS: 1. Great location, not far from the bus and train stations and an easy walk to restaurants, shops, and pubs. 2. The hotel itself has a nice pub; a great place to stop in for a drink or snack, with an Irish band certain days of the week. A shout out to Zed and Tina at the bar. 3. Our room was spacious and clean. CONS: 1. The hotel is a little worn around the edges, and the beds and pillows were not all that comfortable for us. I heard that renovations are in the works to expand the reception area and hopefully the rooms will be renovated as well. 2. Housekeeping was inconsistent. One day we did not get new coffee packets and cream; another day the dirty glasses and coffee cups were not taken away and replaced by new ones. We realize that these things happen, but when we took our dirty dishes to reception there was no apology or offer to fix the problem and in fact we were given a lame excuse along the lines of ‘maybe housekeeping thought we wanted to keep the used cups” (with dried coffe in them?) and we were told to carry our dirty cups and glasses to the bar and get new ones from them ourselves. In fact, the hotel seemed to be staffed mainly with young inexperienced people who definitely could use more training in the area of customer service. We had some other issues with service and for this reason the rating cannot be a 4. I’m not sure I would stay again, unless changes are made.

Went to the Cliffs of Moher for one night. The room was okay. The breakfast was very carefully prepared and delicious. I ordered the egg pancakes and salmon Benedict. It was definitely the highlight.